Broadcasting Telecasting (Oct-Dec 1956)

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July 5: After severe Congressional criticism of some Voice of America programs, NBC and CBS withdraw from programming activities for VOA. July 19: KPRC Houston asks court to set aside Commission's views on political broadcasting and itself interpret the law. July 19: Inter-American Broadcasting Assn., meeting at Buenos Aires, rebukes Argentina for having virtually abolished "liberty of dissemination as conceived by our association." July 26: FCC orders investigation of station representation by networks to see whether it violates Commission's network regulations. July 26: Maj. E. H. Armstrong sues RCA and NBC for alleged infringement of five of his basic fm patents. July 26: Dispatch to B.T and personal letter to publisher from correspondent covering Inter-American Broadcasting Assn. meeting appear on front page of Peron-controlled Democracia along with editorial charging dire plot against Argentina. July 26: Giveaway programs on radio networks alone total $165,000 a week, a B.T survey reveals. July 26: U.S. District Court of New York orders ASCAP to stop collecting performance fees from motion picture theatres. July 26: Five Baltimore stations are charged with contempt of court for broadcasting wire service dispatches of arrest and confession of a man charged with two murders; press associations join NAB in fight against "Baltimore gag" rule. Aug. 9: FCC proposes rules for giveaways which would bar practically all such programs from air. Aug. 9: Frederic W. Ziv buys World Broadcasting System from Decca Records for $1.5 million. Aug. 9: House Select Committee starts investigation of FCC by questioning Commission officials on their stand on political broadcasts. Aug. 16: Westinghouse applies for commercial use of Stratovision. Aug. 23: FCC proposes to limit ownership of am stations to seven by any entity in line with present limit of six fm and five tv stations. Sept. 13: Complaints received from stations by NAB indicate that time chisels and per inquiry business are at all-time high. Sept. 20: AFM President James C. Petrillo offers to end 8V2-month old ban on recordings; proposes royalty payments to be made to a disinterested trustee, who would collect funds from recordings and use them to hire unemployed musicians, avoiding Taft-Hartley ban on direct payments to union. Sept. 27: NBC proposed new tv affiliation contracts call for station to give NBC 30 hours of free time a month, while network assumes all connection costs; NBC sets objective of 28 hours a week of network service. Sept. 27: Philco asks court to force AT&T to transmit from New York to Boston tv programs sent via Philco's own relay system from Philadelphia to New York; charges AT&T with insisting its intercity facilities be used all the way. Oct. 4: FCC puts freeze on tv licensing and hearing functions, pending decision of changes in present tv standards. Oct. 11: CBS purchases Amos 'n' Andy outright for $2 million; makes strong effort to get Bergen and McCarthy away from NBC. Oct. 1 1 : Court of Appeals for District of Columbia rules that FCC must grant hearing to any station which claims it will be harmed by a grant of another application, even if interference would occur outside the normally protected contour, in decision reversing a non-hearing grant to put a 1 kw daytime station at Tarboro, N. C, on the 760 kw I-A clear channel of WJR Detroit. Oct. 1 1 : Transit Radio opens national sales offices in New York and Chicago to represent four licensees; WCTS (FM) Cincinnati KPRC-FM Houston, WIZZ (FM) WilkesBarre-Scranton, WPLH-FM Huntington, W. Va. Oct. 18: Avco's Crosley Broadcasting Corp. (WLW Cincinnati, WINS New York) files application to buy WHAS Louisville for $1,925,000. Oct. 25: FCC rules that equal time provision of Communications law applies only to candidates competing against each other in the same contest Oct. 25: Ultrafax, high-speed communications system capable of transmitting and receiving a million words a minute, developed by RCA in cooperation with Eastman Kodak Co. and NBC, is demonstrated. Nov. 1 : Record companies and AFM reach agreement; companies to pay royalties to "public music fund" administered by impartial trustee. Nov. 8: Robert D. Swezey resigns as vice president and general manager of MBS over appointment of Linus Travers, executive vice president of Yankee Network, as MBS vice president for sales and programs reporting directly to Edgar Kobak, network's president. Nov. 22: FCC orders hearing on news policies of G. A. Richards, owner of KMPC Los Angeles, WJR Detroit and WGAR Cleveland. Nov. 22: Assn. of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers is organized by 26 consultants. 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